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Since TechCrunch Disrupt Darwin has been hard at work and have dramatically
improved on its new site, now called TweetZup, as well as its mission. I am
still connected to Darwin and excited about what is happening.

TweetZup’s real value is to give users the
ability to discover content that is emerging. What better source
than Twitter to do that? In fact, Twitter has been great for self-promotion and
pushing content out, but it lacks in offering a comprehensive discovery of
what is emerging. No wonder why they are having a hard time
with advertisement since they have not really developed user’s
receptiveness to content. Instead brands and companies have been the
real consumer of Twitter content, not the every day user.

Darwin
has created www.tweetzup.com as a
truly dedicated site to see what is emerging right now about topics that you
may care about. Furthermore, you can create alerts for emerging themes of
interest. These alerts can be pushed on your behalf to your twitter account, or
be sent to you via email. Tweetzup also correlates the emerging twitter
themes to find the most relevant videos. It is search without search offering true
contextual discovery. You can drill down to explore a topic, like art, with suggestions or determine your own preferences.

We all know that search engines do a poor job
at revealing what we don’t know, and therefore it is hard to know what you are
missing.

The Tweetzup service is free and in Beta. But
please feel free to play with it, create your own ZUPs (queries), set alerts,
and share your finding.

Also know that Darwin is about to publish an
API that will allow developers to tap into its temporal curation intervals, This
capability is what allows the tag and clustering animation on the site, to
performs tasks such as trend-based SEO, analytics, and predictive computing. A
service/user can extract the metadata and improve their SEO by adding KW to
their content that reflects the trending and associated keywords. See Thierry Hubert’s recent post, Announcing
our new Emerging Organic Metadata Tags for SEO API for more details.

In an effort to support the protection of our homeland, Darwin has
created several pages where you can start to see what topics are emerging
relating to terror threats. You can also create your own alerts when
keywords of interest are piping-up in significant numbers over different
periods of time. The URL is http://www.tweetzup.com/tw/home/home?filter=Terror%20Threat or
go to www.tweetzup.com and
select the Terror Threat category. You can also create your own topics to
monitor by registration via a twitter account. It is a free and open website.